[mythtv-users] Cheap PCI OpenGL compatible card

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:37 AM, Matthew Asplund wrote:

> I have just finished building a little mythtv box.  I purchased an  
> old Compaq small form-factor PC from our university surplus for  
> $40, put in a 250 GB drive and a PVR-150.  It is working very well  
> as both frontend and backend.  Then I attached my regular computer  
> as a remote frontend, and saw how nice the OpenGL stuff looks.   
> Well, now I am wanting it on my little compaq too.  Unfortunately  
> the motherboard has onboard Intel 810, and no AGP port.  I tried  
> using an old 3Dfx PCI card but I could not get hardware  
> acceleration working under Ubuntu.  Does anybody know of a good,  
> cheap, PCI video card with decent OpenGL support?  I can live with  
> the Qt rendering, it just isn't as pretty.
>
> Matthew Asplund

nVidia 5200FX cards are pretty much the standard around here and can  
be had relatively inexpensively. You can get a PCI version of it.